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Animal Welfare Legal IssuesNorthern Rivers CLC held a community forum to gauge interest in animal welfare legal issues that resulted in the formation of the volunteer-based Animal Law & Education Project (ALEP). ALEP is comprised of lawyers, law students and animal carers and engages in community education and law reform activities. ALEP lobbied the local Southern Cross University Law School to offer an Animal Law unit over the summer semester. ALEP held a community forum on animal protection laws and partnered with Southern Cross University’s Animal Law unit academics to run the Animal Law Conference ‘The Road Ahead’, which addressed the shortfalls in legal protections for animals. In May 2012 they presented&n... |
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Anti Poverty Week Lunch The Illawarra Legal Centre collaborated with Wollongong TAFE students to host a lunch with a difference to mark anti-poverty week. A few students were pleasantly surprised when they were seated at the "banquet" table. However, many only received a small bowl of rice and had to look on! Everyone gained some insight into world poverty. |
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Anti-Poverty Week Lunch Barwon Community Legal Service wanted to promote discussion and action about poverty in Australia and around the world. We marked Anti-Poverty Week 2010 by organising a free community BBQ at our local Salvation Army. People were given the opportunity to record concerns/issues that keep people in poverty and/or sign template letters relating to local issues. These letters were sent to local MPs and the event attracted local media. |
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Bulk Debt Negotiation Scheme Instead of negotiating hardship cases or repayment plans on a case-by-case basis, matters with a common creditor (eg a finance company, insurer or utility provider) are bundled and negotiated together. |
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Carbon Farming Initiative The EDO (Vic.) worked with government, NGOs and community members to improve the design of the Carbon Farming Initiative, and the legislation that implemented it. |
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Climate Change Law The EDO is undertaking a number of activities to ensure climate change laws are effective in tackling climate change and will not lead to negative environmental outcomes. The main laws are the Carbon Farming Initiative legislation, Victorian Climate Change Act and proposed Federal carbon price. Activities include assisting the community and peak environment groups to understand the proposed laws so that they can effectively engage with government on their development, making law reform submissions to government and holding public education forums. |
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Community Housing Tenants NSW participates on the registrar of Community Housing's Advisory Forum, including discussion about draft "Compliance Framework", released for comment in September 2010. We conducted preliminary research into the public availability of community housing providers' tenancy management policies. We provided comment to the Community Housing Divison (CHD) of Housing NSW about guidance to providers on use of 'no-cause' termination notices. We understand that the Centre for Affordable Housing (CAH) is looking at providing similar guidance to affordable housing providers not covered by the CHD. Our discussions with the CHD and CAH on this issue are ongoing. We had further discussion with the ... |
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Compensation for non-economic loss Tenants NSW became aware of the decision of the NSW Court of Appeal in Insight Vacations Pty Ltd v Young that proceedings relating to 'distress and disappointment' are subject to the Civil Liability Act 2002, and formed the view that this may severely limit tenants' proceedings for compensation. Tenants NSW made submissions to the Minister for Fair Trading and the Attorney General seeking an exemption from the Civil Liability Act 2002 for proceedings under the Residential Tenancies Act 2010 and the Residential Parks Act 1998. |
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Cop This! When dealing with police it is important to know your rights. This package of resources includes a booklet, DVD and learning sequence which fits in with the NT Curriculum Framework for schools |
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Dealing with Fines Debt The Illawarra Legal Centre wrote submissions, undertook advocacy work and developed educational resources on Fines and Work and Development Orders (WDO) outlining legislative and policy changes that reduce or eliminate fines debt and worked for improvements to these changes. The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) sheets and wallet cards for young people are the basis of educational sessions and law reform work. Work and Development Orders (WDO) were a key feature of the changes to the Fines Act and at the heart of our lobbying and advocacy work. |
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Disability service provision in the Victorian Taxi Industry People with disabilities are often dependent on taxi services for point-to-point travel for access to education, employment, purchase of goods and services and social activities. The taxi industry should be seen as a disability service provider, be funded as a disability service provider and accountable as a disability service provider. The development of the Victorian Taxi Commission should play an active role in regulating the taxi industry as a disability service provider. DDLS will bring the taxi industry, disability service providers and the agencies that fund disability services together to develop recommendations for how the industry can be funded as a disability service provider and provide point-to-point transpor... |
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Grandparents, grandchildren and family Law The Grandparents, Grandchildren and Family Law project encourages grandparents to be confident and informed and to contribute positively to the care, welfare and development of their grandchildren, whether or not the parents of the children are separated or divorced. Focus groups and community information sessions were conducted with Melbourne's Greek Community. A Reference Group was established with industry experts (eg Victoria Legal Aid, CO-ASIT - Italian Agency, private practitioners, Aged Care Services - Moreland Council). The Reference Group informed the development of fact sheets (in English and Greek) in relation to grandparents, grandchildren and Family Law. A final report will be produced with recomm... |
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Housing NSW policy and practice Tenants NSW commenced a quarterly meeting with Housing NSW Client Service Operations to discuss operational issues. Advocates from the Inner Sydney and Illawarra Tenants Advice and Advocacy Services also attended to provide expert comment on selected agenda items. Tenants NSW also engaged in consultation on the Housing and Mental Health Agreement (a high-level agreement across a number of government departments to replace the Joint Guarantee of Service) and attended a half-day workshop, hosted by Housing NSW, to discuss the agreement. We also provided written comments on the final draft of the agreement. We also continued participation on the Housing NSW NGO Partners Reference Group and Living Communities Consultative Com... |
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Human Rights Day A public stall was held in the Wollongong Mall during Friday's market day to commemorate Human Rights Day. A number of pro forma letters were available for people to fill in with their own details and "post" on the spot to local authorities and members of parliament. General information was distributed about human rights. |
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Law and justice tours for newly arrived community members A tour of Barwon Community Legal Service (and talk on Introduction to Australian Law and Police), followed by a tour of the local police station and court house. All information is provided in community languages. |
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Laying Down the Criminal Law This publication uses 7 realistic scenarios that a youth worker may be faced with to explore a rights-based decision making framework around issues such as offending, victims of crime, child protection, police, courts and education. |
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Low-income private renters Tenants NSW made submissions to:
We attended a University of Sydney workshop on the financialisation of housing and made contact with researchers. We also started drafting a paper with a view to commissioning research for an alternative agenda for banking and finance reform with the objective of improved housing affordability. |
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NSW Housing Repairs Campaign Kingsford Legal Centre’s Housing Repairs Campaign seeks to improve the standard of housing for clients living in Housing NSW properties. The campaign uses a number of different strategies. We are working with our local communities to raise awareness about the issue and empower clients to make complaints to Housing NSW and the Tenancy Tribunal through workshops, advice clinics and articles in community newsletters. We are placing pressure on Housing NSW through our casework, in particular focusing on increasing complaints to the Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunals (CTTT) and exploring other legal options, such as discrimination complaints. We are collecting evidence of the problem, lobbying go... |
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Planning for Later Life These Community Legal Education (CLE) sessions were delivered in Forster-Taree to older persons and members of the Aboriginal Communities. This outreach CLE was triggered by a client contacting the TARS Advice Line with a query about planning for later life. The sessions covered wills, powers of attorney and guardianship. |
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Reforming Mining Law in Victoria The EDO (Vic.) is running a long-term law reform project aimed at improving Victoria's mining laws to better protect the environment, sensitive land uses and regional communities from mining (especially for coal and coal seam gas). |